Sometimes, we get too attached to certain ideas - ideas of right and wrong, ideas that pertain to what we really want in life - and we think that those ideas are for forever. The ideas get so embedded in our life that we sometimes believe they'll be part of us for eternity, that they define the person that we are.
Until one day... Another idea comes along, another experience, another possibility... Strong enough to want us to let go of all those ideas we've previously believed in... Powerful enough to want us to throw away all those that we initially thought are the things that define us... And real enough to want us to empty ourselves of all those that we thought make up the person that we are, and to live a different life, try another path, maybe become another person, one that we've always wanted to be but have afraid of becoming because it contradicts with what we've always believed in.
And then we realize, nothing in life is permanent. What we believe in today, can be challenged tomorrow. What we think we want today, can change in a flick of a finger. All that we have built around us, those that secure us and those that define our identity, can crumble in an instant and leave us feeling like a totally different individual.
How do we deal with this? I guess we must always be ready to embrace the change.
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